Facebook to open office in Hyderabad, India
Facebook expands to India, surpasses Google as most popular "destination."

China, India and U.S. role: Afghanistan and beyond
Concerned about Afghanistan? Then pay attention to one of the world's most unlikely potential hotspots, tucked into the folds of the Himalayas, where two huge Asian nations have been facing off.

Jyoti Basu, great son of India, dies at 95
Jyoti Basu, a grand man of Indian politics and socialist movement who enjoyed tremendous popularity and respect, died Jan. 17 at age 95.
The U.S. and the world
The world, it is generally acknowledged, has been torn loose from the old moorings that for decades structured life for billions of people.

India farmers stop price freeze on sugar cane
NEW DELHI- Over 12,000 sugarcane farmers demonstrated in New Delhi on Thursday (Nov. 19) to demand higher prices for their crop.

World Notes: Brazil, Yemen, India, Canada, Uganda, Cuba
Cuba: Retamar honors Marti Poet Roberto Fernández Retamar inaugurated the 7th International conference on Marti Studies. The writer and Casa de las Americas president praised Jose Marti's contribution to Latin American unity and his inspiration of a "second Cuban revolution," led by Fidel Castro in 1953.
Socialist Kerala: A very different India
Stretching along the Indian Ocean, Kerala is a densely populated state on the southwest shore of India with a free, well-educated, equitable and relatively well-off society.

Climate change hurts India, South Asia
Throughout India and South Asia people participated in the International Day of Climate Action, Oct. 24, which was organized to bring attention to the necessity of reducing global warming gasses, especially carbon dioxide, from the current 380 parts per million to 350 ppm.

India-China dispute? Says who
A section of media in India and abroad have hyped the border dispute between India and China these days.

